Taking Yourselves Seriously

这个项目的目的是从一个名为“共同制作遗产”的研究项目中创造有用的知识，该项目着眼于艺术理解和知识对互联社区计划内的研究做出了哪些贡献。最初的项目发现，从艺术实践中做事的方式可以为面向社区的研究提供信息。这些做事方式包括建立在默契、经验、视觉和语言知识基础上的方法论，这些知识是开放的，可以是实验性的。艺术家可以创作绘画、写诗和创作雕塑；他们也可以挑战或质疑人们如何看待世界，以及如何从“倾斜”的角度来处理日常体验。由这些方法产生的方法可以使诗歌、视觉艺术和电影作为输出产生，并创造一个质疑空间，在那里失败、实验和不同的认识方式被带到突出的位置。这些可以被描述为“方法”，但不是社会科学的调查模式。艺术方法论可能是开放式的，不寻求共识，并涉及到默契和物质层面的知识创造形式。我们将在三个项目中试验这些方法，重点是社区内的社会凝聚力，并探索从创意和艺术来源产生的研究方法如何支持和使社区研究人员能够进行自己的研究。我们将通过三个项目从我们的工作中产生资源，这三个项目借鉴了“联合制作遗产”研究项目，但新的重点是社会凝聚力。项目团队将与国家社区研究组织ARVAC(志愿与社区部门研究协会)以及谢菲尔德市议会和罗瑟勒姆市议会的社会凝聚力专家合作，通过一系列重点项目将艺术方法嵌入社区研究。这些项目将在罗瑟勒姆市中心的一所学校、社区背景(英亚妇女团体)和英国谢菲尔德皮特穆尔的冒险游乐场进行。目的是支持社区内借鉴艺术方法的可持续和参与性研究。成果将是ARVAC网站上的一套可下载的资源，这些资源可以向社区研究人员通报这类研究的潜力和处理此类研究的方法，借鉴案例研究并提供具体的实践例子，以便研究人员能够试验他们自己的想法。这些资源将通过ARVAC可以与社会凝聚力领域的专家一起提供的国家网络传播。我们的目标是创建一种资源，向新的受众传播社区内艺术知识研究的力量和价值，并使社区和关注社会凝聚力的志愿团体能够进行自己的研究并在社区内传播。

This project aims to create useful knowledge from a research project called 'Co-producing Legacy' that looked at what artistic understandings and knowledge contributed to research within the Connected Communities programme. The original project found that ways of doing things from artistic practice could inform community oriented research. These ways of doing things include methodologies that were founded on tacit, experiential, visual and linguistic knowledges that are open to change and can be experimental. Artists can produce paintings, write poems and create sculptures; they can also challenge or question how people think about the world and approach everyday experience from a 'slant' perspective. Methodologies stemming from these approaches can enable the production of poetry, visual art and film as outputs as well as create a questioning space where failure, experimentation and different ways of knowing are brought to the fore. These could be described as 'methods' but not in a social scientific mode of enquiry. Artistic methodologies might be open -ended, non consensus seeking and involve tacit and materially situated forms of knowledge creation. We are going to trial these methodologies within three projects with a focus on social cohesion within communities, and explore how research methods generated from creative and artistic sources can support and enable community researchers to do their own research. We will be producing resources from our work with three projects drawing on the 'Co-producing Legacy' research project, but with a new focus on social cohesion. The project team will work collaboratively with a national community research organisation, ARVAC (the Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector) together with social cohesion experts from Sheffield City Council and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to embed artistic methodologies into community research through a series of focused projects. The projects will take place in a school in central Rotherham, a community context (British Asian Women's groups) and an adventure playground in Pitsmoor in Sheffield, UK.The aim is to support sustainable and participatory research within communities that draws on artistic methodologies. The outcome will be a set of downloadable resources on the ARVAC website that can inform community researchers about the potential of this sort of research and ways of approaching such research, drawing on case studies and providing concrete examples of practice so that researchers can try out their own ideas.This resource will be disseminated through the national networks that ARVAC can supply together with experts within the field of social cohesion. Our aim is to create a resource that disseminates the power and value of artistically informed research within communities to new audiences and can enable community and voluntary groups concerned about social cohesion to conduct their own research and disseminate this within communities.